• Webpages Acting Weird: Pictures corrupted, formats messed up
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I'm on Windows 7 64bit using Chrome although the problem happens on IE as well, if you need any more info just ask and I'll provide. Basically my problem is random pictures and webpages load up 'corrupted' or 'distorted' as shown here: [url]http://imgur.com/a/j3pmB[/url] It's not every picture/webpage, but enough that it's is noticeable and even with a refresh the same corrupted pictures/webpages load up the same exact way with the same exact corrupted pattern. Even the Steam store front page is weird, although it's like one or two pictures only. I scanned with malewarebytes and found a trojan by the name of GOOGLEUPDATER.EXE and so I deleted it. Nothing has changed though although malwarebytes says its gone. Not sure what I should do or if that was even what was causing the problems. Any help please? Also, if anything looks out of the ordinary, a search for 'googleupd' gives me this: [url]http://i.imgur.com/PdStW9f.png[/url] I really need to fix this.
The googleupdater.exe from the appdata looks suspicious, delete it, and run the original googleupdater.exe from your Google directory. If it doesn't work, reinstall chrome, I don't think it will delete your favorites and stuff.
Thanks, from what I've noticed, webpages are actually formatted correctly now. But I'm still getting this stuff with the images: [url]http://i.imgur.com/t6lg19M.png[/url] More: [url]http://i.imgur.com/YiYVqzs.png[/url]
My internet just became extremely slow and then this came up: [url]http://i.imgur.com/nXGpgNq.png[/url] Could this be the problem to everything? [editline]28th March 2013[/editline] My CPU is at 90-100% right now, fans are pretty loud but not exactly dangerous sounding, and I'm lagging. What is going on? Anything look fishy? [url]http://i.imgur.com/kqKjGyn.png[/url] EDIT: As of right now, I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials to see if it catches anything.
Well it's one of the tabs on chrome which is using all the CPU, maybe it's a chrome bug?
So I reinstalled Chrome and I'm not lagging anymore but I still have the picture problem. Images just keep loading corrupted/distorted. Any idea what it could be? [editline]29th March 2013[/editline] There's still some subtle lag once in a while like when typing in the browser or loading a page. Picture problem getting worse, videos stop half way or dont load. Please help.
The pictures may be a GPU issue.
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40091839]The pictures may be a GPU issue.[/QUOTE] It's only on the internet though. Wouldn't it be happening to programs and personal pictures if it were a GPU problem?
That's interesting, I haven't seen something like that before. It looks like it's somehow hardware related. I can't suggest anything other than install another copy of Windows (or maybe make a new user account) and see if the problem persists.
On second thought it could be a virus corrupting your data. You could also try if running Combofix works, it should be good at removing hard viruses if it finds one. It doesn't take very long, last time I used it took like 10 minutes or so.
[QUOTE=Martti010;40093537]On second thought it could be a virus corrupting your data. You could also try if running Combofix works, it should be good at removing hard viruses if it finds one. It doesn't take very long, last time I used it took like 10 minutes or so.[/QUOTE] Do you have link for that? I don't want to mistakenly download a fake and the CNET download seems to say its an "incomplete download" and "damaged media".
I believe one of my friends was saying something similar like this to me the other day he said he ran Malwarebytes and it sorted out the problem, might be worth looking into.
He already ran malwarebytes. Also, here: [url]http://www.combofix.org/[/url]
[QUOTE=iCookiehost;40096431]I believe one of my friends was saying something similar like this to me the other day he said he ran Malwarebytes and it sorted out the problem, might be worth looking into.[/QUOTE] I re-scanned with Malwarebytes and its came up clean.
[QUOTE=Martti010;40097430]He already ran malwarebytes. Also, here: [url]http://www.combofix.org/[/url][/QUOTE] I did the scan and according to the log it deleted C:\Install.exe c:\windows\security\Database\tmp.edb D:\install.exe Is there any other information that I should share from the log? And it seems like the problem still persists.
I've had this before, it's not really a gpu issue, more some kind of weird internet load issue with the router or something, it's on off haven't had it in forever though
[QUOTE=J!NX;40099202]I've had this before, it's not really a gpu issue, more some kind of weird internet load issue with the router or something, it's on off haven't had it in forever though[/QUOTE] My laptop has been fine though so I'm not so sure it's the router, plus this never happened previously. Could it be my wireless adapter? I don't think it's hardware that's causing this, but I've never experienced this so I wouldn't be so sure.
The only time I've had the issue with pictures was some kind of hardware issue, been too long ago for me to remember exactly, but try an alternative way to connect to the internet (like wired or something). Try reinstalling the wireless drivers aswell.
[QUOTE=shadow_oap;40099169]I did the scan and according to the log it deleted [B]C:\Install.exe[/B] [B]D:\install.exe[/B][/QUOTE] Well I'm not an expert of this program myself, maybe you could send the log on Combofix forums or something, if they have one. Maybe some expert can help. But these two files do seem suspicious, maybe double check (just in case) if they reappeared.
Considering you have a double IP problems, the problem could lie within the router.
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